Wanderlust

Traveller´’s Tales does not only pursue these movements thematically but demonstrates the transition in the form of complex acts of montage. Traveller´’s Tales weaves a dense discursive net around the connections between images, travel, migration and nomadism starting out from found foot

Synopsis ENG In March 1980, César Alarcón traveled to Pompeii on an ambitious project: to collect 'psychophonies' - electronic voice phenomena - from Vesuvius's great eruption that destroyed the city. After listening to all of his recordings, he finds that none contain sounds from the

José Renato, a 35 year old geologist, is sent on a fieldtrip to the scrublands of the Sertão, a semi-arid isolated region in the Northeast of Brazil. The goal of his survey is to assess possible routes for a water canal from the region's only voluminous river. As the fieldtrip progress

Amanar Tamasheq focuses on the encounter between the filmmaker and the Tuareg rebels. He is asked to record their history, even if he does not understand what he is documenting. Which is a strong statement for the concept of cinema as an art that has an expressive intelligence of its own. Senses of

West Bank, Palestine. Inside the Occupied territories by the Israeli military forces, the Palestinian inhabitants suffer on a daily basis from basic human rights violations. The occupation control the access to their territory, the natural resources and the freedom of movement. Ahmad Nasser, Samiha

An experimental documentary, a visual poem about an encounter with a city that will not be seen but present through its sounds and the thermal prints of one of its inhabitants' mapped body.

Free World Pens is a film about family and solitary confinement. The film takes shape through letters from a man incarcerated in Texas, whose words echo in the mind of his sister as she walks freely through Montreal.

An ambulance ride through the desert, the camera accompanies someone injured. Views from the hospital room towards the street.

In this experimental travelogue, efforts to sound human and look natural instead become artificial. The scenery is provided through photo-chromed vintage postcards, displaying not only scenic North American landscapes but also the rise of infrastructure and industry. Aspiring to look more realistic

In this feature documentary, husband-and-wife team Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison ( Being Caribou ), along with their 2-year-old son and dog, retrace the literary footsteps of Canadian writer Farley Mowat. They canoe east from Calgary towards the Prairies (the geography of Farley's Born Naked and

Which Way to CA? reflects a tourist´s view, which is perhaps the only view anyone of European descent can have of California, having arrived here only recently (10 minutes, 200 years) from somewhere else. The film begins with freeways and cemeteries under freeways. Someone with a camera in one

handbikemovie is an autobiographical visual account of a chapter in my life and in this respect it is the logical sequel of my book of photographs Bruchlandungen (crash-landings). For five years now have I ridden my handbike every day and in all weathers. So far I have already travelled and experien

This documentary is a portrait of modern-day Pondicherry, an ancient city near the southern tip of India. For several centuries an outpost of France, the city is now home to Auroville, a spiritual community growing on its periphery. There, European and North American devotees of Sri Aurobindo, a Ben

A mysterious journey takes place in the darkness of Paris underground: tunnels, galleries, sewers. Led by a desire for archiving and confronting the depth, a young man equipped with a rope crosses organs, arteries and abandoned limbs of the capital.

This short, experimental road movie is a study in mystery and atmosphere. Juxtaposing photographs on the screen with a woman's words, the film tells the story of a couple who drifts apart, of a journey with no return. Introspective and haunting, this mood piece is a travel album about intimacy and d

The distance from Casamance, Africa to el Penedés, Catalonia, Europe, is measured by a videocamera. A cut. A change of camera perspective. What is what? Where are we? What ever happened to the songs we used to sing while we worked? Where is the group, the community, the tribe? A film about wo

NYC sync is a diary film shot during the summer of 2007 in New York City, with a Super 8 camera. Using the frame by frame technique; the film records a set of paths through the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn, franticallly. These shorts series of accelerated images is accompanied by a falsely sync

Documentary essay, filmed during an Atlantic crossing aboard a cargo ship. A film about immensity and faith, about the uninterrupted movements of the waves and their power. And finally, perhaps most importantly, about the men aboard, witnesses and actors in this life between two shores, isolated in

I visit several cities and I hit my head on different surfaces. A microphone, which is mounted on my head, records the sound of these head-beats. A camera, located off to the side, records each action. In this way, all is made visible: the action, the sound recording, the surface upon which I hit my

In 2018 in Sendagi, an old town in Tokyo under urban development toward the Olympic Games. The present scenery might soon disappear. I went out by bicycle with my video camera. This is a "life road-movie documentary."

A young Spanish director gets fired from his job at a broadcaster. Recovering his dream to make movies he travels to India in "search" of his first feature film, only to discover that his real search isn't in India but back home: actually, he was escaping... Back in Madrid however things don't exact

"What were you doing while I took this photo when the train passed through your house last year ? "

Pawel and Wawel gathers unique images and sounds from a journey through Iceland that position themselves between documentary gesture and performative strategy. The starting point and anchor of this trans-genre diary film, road movie, documentary film project, is the film festival initiated by Krzyst

Cristóbal leaves Costa Rica to Chile in hopes of living a love affair with a girl he met on the internet through his cousin. Obviously this love fails and Cristóbal is faced with the solitude of a town he barely knows. What starts out like a love story gone wrong becomes a search for i

An Indonesian girl who was born in France going back to Indonesia when she is 4 years old. Despite being in a trip to her homeland, Indonesia is a foreign land for the girl as she never been there before. The girl recalled the memory of her fist time living in Indonesia as a bizzare and unforgettabl

The intimate journal of a voyage to Moscow and Saint Petersburg in Russia. An observant eye that reveals Jorge Tur Molto's talent is overlaid with an account of the filmmaker's relationship with his girlfriend, which coming to its end. A film that takes up the issue of distance, it is brilliant, ful

In bed, looking up at a cracked ceiling. Voices are heard. A few shadowy figures gather, but the wind in the trees outside the window is distracting. This may be the last chance to take a look around. An elegy to textures, memories, details and organic matter from the point of view of a soul on its

This return passing through two continents is a request of time and memory. Train represents the form of photography. Thousands of images create the movement from right to left, which presents the perspective of the painting on Chinese handscroll.